What do you call bright, colorful half-body portraits like those often used on personal websites?
Asked 4/5/2019
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I’m designing a personal website and like the look of portraits that show a person from about the waist up or full length, placed against bold, colorful backgrounds with some depth. I found examples on another personal site and want to know whether this type of image has a specific photography name or genre. Is there a standard term for these kinds of portraits, and what would the half-body framing be called? Also, if there’s a typical lens choice for this look, what should I look at?
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It's stock photography. Not a style in a classical style in the meaning of that, but that's the type of the photographs on that website. As for "half body" - it's called medium shot, very common in stock photography due to being a great way to show over-the-top body expression that's all too common in modern-day stock photography.
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There isn’t really one precise formal style name for this look based on the answers provided. The most accurate description is that these are stock-photo-style portraits: clean, bright, commercial-looking images often used on websites and in advertising.
For the framing, a half-body image is commonly called a medium shot. Full-body is simply a full-length portrait. The bold colors may also remind some people of a pop-art-inspired look, especially when backgrounds and styling are very graphic.
As for lenses, there isn’t a single specific lens implied by this style alone. The look depends as much on lighting, background, styling, and post-processing as on the lens. For portraits like this, photographers commonly use normal to short-telephoto focal lengths, choosing based on how much of the subject they want in frame and how much background they want to show.
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